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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






2. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






3. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






4. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






5. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






7. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






8. What a story or play is about.






9. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






10. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






11. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






12. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






13. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






14. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






15. A character struggles against some outside force.






16. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






17. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






18. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






19. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






20. The person who 'tells' the story.






21. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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22. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






23. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






24. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






25. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






27. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






28. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






29. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






30. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






31. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






32. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






33. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






34. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






35. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






36. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






37. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






38. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






39. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






40. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






41. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






42. The time and place of a story or play.






43. A three-line stanza.






44. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






45. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






46. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






47. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






48. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






49. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






50. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.